Wednesday, July 30, 2008

"At every critical moment of our struggle in America we have had to press relentlessly against the limits of the 'realistic' to create new realities for the life of our people. This is our challenge at Gary and beyond, for a new Black politics demands new vision, new hope and new definitions of the possible. Our time has come. These things are necessary. All things are possible."

---The 1972 Black Political Convention Agenda in Gary, Indiana

ABOLISH

Why??? For Destroying Black Males!!!

For all the faults and shortcomings that the CNN Black in America series possessed, one thing they did right will be overlooked for whatever reasons…They called out Black political leadership’s accountability in the plight of Black males!!! That’s right!!! Soledad O’ Brien and company actually stated several times in the Black Men segment that many Black men in prison are in prison for non-violent drug offenses…

However, the legislation created a huge disparity in drug sentencing…For example, people received more time for selling crack than cocaine or rather coke…Most poorer neighborhoods of color pushed crack while the affluent white folks and suburbs used cocaine…The CBC in their ignorance and self hate helped to nationalize the infamous Rockefeller Laws of New Yorkon steroids…

They felt naively that they could stop violence in inner city neighborhoods by locking up more Black people…Not creating more job opportunities/training, not creating better educational opportunities or environmental conditions, that would be too humane and empathetic…Rather the CBC felt that feeding young Blacks into the prison industry complex was the best idea to invest in...Can you say Middle Passage Complex???

The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world…25% of the world’s prisoners our locked down in the land of the free…1 out of 100 Adult Americans are incarcerated…There are two million folks in American prisons and there are 4 million Americans on parole/probation…Almost half the folks locked down are people of color…African Americans only represent 13% of the general U.S. population…

CBC’s short term solution to a long term problem has actually cost the Black community lost future generations of Black men…Black men who should be going to college, marrying, raising families, and being productive members of society now find themselves being claimed once again like their ancestors as state property…

Black political leadership courage or lack thereof is the reason…It took a courageous white man and innovative journalist, Gary Webb, to expose the myth that these Black faced leaders couldn’t face …He wrote extensively about ‘The Dark Alliance’, Iran-Contra fiasco, where the CIA a.k.a. the government was caught red handed in flooding the U.S. inner cities with high tech military weaponry and illegal drugs during the 80s…

The reason??? To make money to fund the CIA’s covert wars in Central & South America…Black & Brown communities were seen as nothing but collateral damage in this ‘war on communism’ (just like now people of color globally are seen as collateral damage in the ‘war on terror’)…’The war on drugs’ in reality is also a war on the poor, dispossessed and colored…

Webb’s price for seeking truth and keeping his journalistic integrity cost him his career (the corporate media refused to hire him and they character assassinated him in all their major outlets including The NY Times, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post) and his life (he finally committed ‘suicide’ in 2004)…But he was right, Black males should not be punished for greater crimes against humanity committed by the state…

But the CBC did not care, all they cared about were the crumbs their status afforded them and their loyalists…They sold out a whole generation of potential Malcolm Xs, Martin Luther Kings, Medgar Evers’, Muhammad Alis, Huey Newtons, Fred Hamptons, & Paul Robesons for fool’s gold…And in the words of Dr. King, “we can live together as brothers or perish together as fools”…

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Quote of the Moment

"Every great dream begins
with a dreamer. Always
remember, you have within
you the strength, the
patience, and the passion
to reach for the stars to
change the world."

"If I could have convinced
more slaves that they were
slaves, I could have
freed thousands more."

-Harriet Tubman

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